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Day: May 30, 2023

GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC-2) (29 May to 2 June 2023)

Reject False Solutions & Ineffective Techno-Fixes For the Global #PlasticsTreaty to be effective, the treaty must include legally binding, time-bound, and ambitious targets to scale up reuse, refill, and alternative product delivery systems to accelerate the transition away from single-use plastics. Correspondingly, the treaty must reject false solutions, regrettable substitutes, and...
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GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC-2) (29 May to 2 June 2023)

A Brief Recap of Previous Negotiations The second session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-2) for Plastics will take place in Paris, France, from 29 May to 2 June 2023. This United Nations committee will in Paris to work on what is intended to be a landmark treaty to bring an end to global plastic pollution. The Committee is charged with developing the first international,...
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We need food, not nicotine addiction

This year’s theme for World No Tobacco Day, ‘We need food, not tobacco’, is relevant to Malaysia although the tobacco farmers began switching over to kenaf cultivation about a decade ago. The tobacco industry is now focused on pushing the highly addictive nicotine as a substitute. Whether people smoke conventional cigarettes or electronic nicotine delivery system (ENDS), or Heated Tobacco...
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MERCURY IN COSMETICS CAN DAMAGE THE KIDNEYS

Skin-whitening creams with mercury that promise you fair skin and anti-ageing effects have a hidden threat – kidney damage. Using such products can result in renal damage that may require costly medical treatment and hospitalization, cautions the Philippines Ecowaste Coalition in a recent press release. The group cited 2 examples of kidney-damaging mercury-added cosmetics: the Pakistan-made...
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HEALTH BENEFITS OF DECLUTTERING

Tidying up can help you de-stress, gain a sense of control, and improve your state of mind in numerous ways. The process (and results) of putting things in their place can improve your mood and state of mind. If it puts you at ease, it can be an important part of self-care. Decluttering (the process of putting the miscellaneous physical things around you away where they belong) not only makes it...
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WHAT MAKES A GOOD DOCTOR

“A great doctor is more interested in trying to get you off medications than on them. He or she wants to make you healthier overall, not just cure you of whatever problem brought you into the office that day. If doctors would focus on getting patients to eat healthy foods, exercise and quit smoking, it would have a more dramatic effect than all the pills and procedures combined.” – Robert...
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